Butz Sebastian, Stahlberg Dagmar
Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Mannheim, 68159 Mannheim, Germany.
Behav Sci (Basel). 2020 Mar 6;10(3):64. doi: 10.3390/bs10030064.
Poor sleep quality is highly prevalent in modern societies and negatively linked to various health outcomes. While previous research has demonstrated preliminary evidence for self-compassion as a tool for improving sleep quality, this review provides a meta-analysis of respective published and unpublished results of our own research group using German samples. A total of nine studies are included ( = 956 participants), consisting of both correlational and experimental data. Across these studies, there was a medium correlation between self-compassion and subjective sleep quality, = 0.303, 95% CI (0.244; 0.360). In three experimental studies, a small increase in participants' self-reported sleep quality emerged, in comparison to control conditions, Hedges' s = 0.484, 95% CI (0.148; 0.821). Limitations on study level concern both the small sample sizes and short-term analyses of intervention effects. As a conclusion, this review supports both the correlational and causal relationship between self-compassion and increased subjective sleep quality across diverse operationalizations and samples. Future research should focus on the moderating effects of intervention type, duration of intervention effects, and type of target population.
睡眠质量差在现代社会中非常普遍，并且与各种健康结果存在负相关。虽然先前的研究已经初步证明自我同情是改善睡眠质量的一种手段，但本综述对我们自己研究团队使用德国样本的已发表和未发表的相关结果进行了荟萃分析。总共纳入了9项研究（n = 956名参与者），包括相关数据和实验数据。在这些研究中，自我同情与主观睡眠质量之间存在中等程度的相关性，r = 0.303，95%置信区间（0.244；0.360）。在三项实验研究中，与对照条件相比，参与者自我报告的睡眠质量有小幅提高，Hedges' g = 0.484，95%置信区间（0.148；0.821）。研究层面的局限性在于样本量小以及对干预效果的短期分析。总之，本综述支持了自我同情与不同操作化和样本中主观睡眠质量提高之间的相关关系和因果关系。未来的研究应关注干预类型的调节作用、干预效果的持续时间以及目标人群的类型。
